{"id":743664,"date":"2026-07-05T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/743664\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:18:15","slug":"cardinals-try-to-continue-win-streak-play-the-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/743664\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals try to continue win streak, play the Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (47-39, third in the NL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (49-40, second in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Sunday, 2:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore<\/a> (4-5, 5.33 ERA, 1.55 WHIP, 79 strikeouts); Cubs: Javier Assad<\/a> (6-1, 4.53 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -172, Cardinals +140; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals are looking to build upon a three-game win streak with a victory against the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 49-40 record overall and a 26-19 record at home. The Cubs are 39-13 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

St. Louis is 47-39 overall and 24-18 in road games. The Cardinals have the eighth-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play at .248.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the sixth meeting between these teams this season. The Cardinals hold a 4-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> leads the Cubs with 19 home runs while slugging .527. Dansby Swanson<\/a> is 11 for 39 with five home runs and 15 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with 37 extra base hits (18 doubles and 19 home runs). Nathan Church<\/a> is 5 for 30 with three home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 7-3, .244 batting average, 4.95 ERA, outscored opponents by 13 runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 5-5, .238 batting average, 3.24 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cubs: Porter Hodge: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ethan Roberts: 15-Day IL (forearm), Matt Shaw<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Hoby Milner: 15-Day IL (appendicitis), Phil Maton<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 60-Day IL (tricep), Riley Martin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jameson Taillon: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Ben Brown<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), Edward Cabrera<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Cade Horton: 60-Day IL (forearm), Daniel Palencia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Shelby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: Dustin May: day-to-day (ankle), Ramon Urias: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals (47-39, third in the NL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs (49-40, second in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,734,160,24,888,733,4914,75686,4156,159,393,19,716,4,35,4397,27260,849,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-743664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-cardinals","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-daniel-palencia","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-javier-assad","tag-justin-steele","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-shaw","tag-mlb","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-phil-maton","tag-riley-martin","tag-shelby-miller","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116866862517640408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}